Art Fair Time, Feeling springish?—All the March Art Fairs are opening on Thursday. This is the mother-load. Check out our favorite fair the Art on Paper Fair. Great site, lots of breathing room and very interesting art. Check it out.
Mark Bradford
Be Strong Boquan
Marke was present at the opening. He’s a very striking individual, 6′6″ African american guy, reed thin. No wonder that his canvasses are so big, it’s because he is too. I can just image him painting the tops of one of those massive pieces. The show is super cool. He book ends the show with 2 videos. Thoughtful videos. THe first one is a 3 projector piece that runs almost the length of the gallery and shows roller skating wheels “Kryptonic” wheels rolling in and bouncing out of frame. So cool when you realize that this gallery used to be a huge roller skating run. I whish they would put art in the middle and allow you to skate around it harkening it’s old glory days of the 1970′s.
The end video is a visual-less audio recording of a very racy and not political piece of a comedian riffing on Aids, Being African American and race in America. Funny that the show and 3 of the smaller pieces are named from the comedian’s riff piece.
Cool and complicated. Rockstar stuff.
The Wrapture is Here—It’s not the end of the world and it’s not yet time for Christmas promotions, but here we have the Wrapture at Walter Wickiser Gallery. Nice work by Mark Travers opening up Thursday night. Check it out.
Dia:Beacon
Beacon, NY
Really nice to stop by Beacon again. They have fantastic depth on a lot of favorite artists including John Chamberlain, Richard Serra, Louise Bourgeois and Dan Flavin. Very Contemporary and very 21st century. Worth a visit every time.
Painting and Sculpture on tap—Jacob Lewis Gallery has an exhibition of new sculptures and works on paper by Rina Banerjee. The sculptures are a wild combination of materials speaking about ones’ cultural identity in an urban context. Check it out this Thursday night. Also Bill Jensen has a show of triptychs. His painting style is more of an uncovering process, whereby he teases out the image through repetitive painting and scraping until the final image is realized. Check it out.